Being Single Quotes

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  I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Single, Hiking, Working Alone

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• This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

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• Solitude is the place of purification.

  Martin Buber

  Single, Faith, Inspiration

  Martin Buber (2012). “I and Thou”, p.109, eBookIt.com

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• Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Single, Sexy, Mean

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• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

  Voltaire

  Marriage, Humorous, Being Alone

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

  Katie Couric

  Single, Block, Voice

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything,
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Single

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

  Warsan Shire

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Single Life

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• I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

  Sue Grafton

  Single, Rich, Single Women

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Confidence

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Love You, Being Alone, Wine

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books

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• Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

  Mark Twain

  Single, Loyalty, Self

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  When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Single, Peace

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• Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Single, Blessing

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.608, Delphi Classics

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Single, Thinking, Joy

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Single, Brother, Loneliness

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Single, Wisdom, Loneliness

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277

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• I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marriage, Single, Wedding

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• I'm single because I was born that way.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Freedom

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

  Publilius Syrus

  Single, Law, Solitude

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• Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

  Andre Gide

  Single, Venture, Consent

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